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THE REVELATION 

HAS been practically sealed to the Church, and few 
have dared to attempt to fathom its mysteries; 
yet " all Scripture is profitable," and the Holy Spirit is 
promised to " teach us all things," and " show us things 
to come." 

In this pamphlet we have the gleanings of a business 
man, gathered together from many sources, and given out 
to Bible students with the hope that increased interest 
may be created in its study. 

Application to times, places, or individuals, has been 
avoided, and principles preferred. 

The things that have been helpful to him may be so 
to others who have not the time for study. To such this 
little book is dedicated, invoking His blessing upon all 
who "read and hear and keep the sayings of this book." 



I NDEX. 



Chapter I. 

,, II., III. 

IV. 

V. 

VI. 

VII. 

VIII. 

IX. 

X. 

XI. 

XII. 

XIII. 

XIV. 

XV. 

XVI. 

„ XVII. 

„ XVIII. 

XIX. 

XX. 

XXI. 

„ XXII. 

Symbolic ... 

Numbers in Revelation 



PAGE 

5 
6 
11 
12 
14 
16 
18 
20 
22 
23 
25 
27 
30 
31 
32 
34 
36 
38 
40 
42 
45 
47 
49 



THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 



nPHIS is a revelation of Jesus Christ to His servants of 
-*- things that must shortly come to pass. 

It is a book of judgments ; the secrets of God's grace 
are unfolded m other portions of the New Testament. 

Our Lord is seen here acting as judge, and we have 
brought before us the Church, Israel, and the nations. 
Judgment begins with the house of God, and then follows 
to all classes. 

The ground of judgment is the cross, and the standard 
of judgment is the Word of God. 

A special blessing is assured to those who " read, hear, 
and keep the sayings of this book." Kev. i. 3. 

A special warning against taking away from the words 
of the prophecy of this book in chap. xxii. 19. 

It was written by a man lt in the Spirit," and can only 
be understood by those who are taught of the Spirit. 

Here the Lamb of God opens heaven, and they who 
share in the life of the Lamb may enter with Him. 

The divisions of the book are clearly made in chap. i. 
19, and relate to things past, present, and future. The 
" things which thou hast seen," referring to the past, and 
which occupy chap. i. ; "the things which are," relating 
to the present, see chapters ii. and iii. ; and " the things 
which shall be hereafter," pointing to the future, and 
comprise all the chapters from the 4th to the 22nd. 

Our Lord first appears as judge in the midst of the 
churches represented by the seven candlesticks. 

Like unto the Son of Man, clothed with that which 
represents intrinsic righteousness, with a purity that 
cannot look upon evil, trying all by the fire of His holiness, 
testing all and rewarding all according to the Word of God. 



6 The Book of Revelation. 

One look at Him withers everything fleshly, and exposes 
the insufficiency of human righteousness. 

Self dies at His feet, but His touch and His Word give 
life and peace. 

It is not now a question of what we are, but of what 
He is. I have been in the grave for you. Hell and death 
can never claim or touch you ; I have the keys of both. 



CHAPTERS II. and III. 

Are occupied with the letters to the seven churches of 
Asia. Seven is the number of perfection, and whether 
we look at these churches in their past history, present 
condition, or future development, we believe we have a 
comprehensive view of the many phases of success and 
failure that characterise the history of the Church, and 
which are now to be judged. 

To each there is an exhortation and promise that may 
be studied with profit, varying with their need, and as the 
declension goes deeper the rewards toovercomers rise higher. 

Judgment now is according to works, not profession, 
our Lord approving all He can. condemning what He must. 

The first three are exhorted to get back to the pattern, 
the last four are warned that the Lord is coming. 



EPHESUS 



Is commended for her labour, patience, and exposure of 
hypocrisy. She is fruitful in good works, but lacking in 
love, with plenty of machinery, yet her fire is going out. 
Love only can satisfy love, and must be the mainspring of 
service. He wants us, not our service ; our hearts rather 
than our works. When He has our hearts service will 
follow in its place. 



The Hook of lu'velation. 



5. — Call to repentance, restoration is always easy when 
sin has been judged. 

They did not return, and the candlestick was removed. 
We delight in the wondrous Epistle to the Ephesians that 
is left to us ; but we search in vain for the Church at 
Ephesus — she is no more. 

7. — The promise is to individual overcomers, not what 
man lost in the garden of Eden, something better than 
that, the Paradise of God. 



SMYRNA. 



Our Lord speaks to this church as the resurrected one. 
Smyrna's troubles were all external. Satan's power and the 
world's hostility were permitted for a better development of 
the divine life, and as a check to a departure from the faith. 

Tribulation, poverty, suffering and trial, were to be their 
portion here, but a crown of life awaited above. 

10. — Shows that Satan's power is limited, and his 
chain is measured. He can touch a child of God no further 
than he is permitted. Job. i. 12, ii. 6. 

The strength of Smyrna was in her martyrs, not her 
scholars ; in her tribulation, not her riches. 

11. — The crown of life promised to those who give up 
life here. They might die for their testimony, as their 
Lord did ; but the second death could not touch them. 



PERGAMOS. 



12. — The letter to this church would indicate a further 
step downward. Not persecution, but patronage. 

Our Lord speaks here as the one " which hath the 
sharp sword with two edges," the only remedy for such 
departure from the faith. 



8 The Book of Revelation, 

13. — The church is seen no longer "seated in the 
heavenlies " as Ephesus, but dwelling where Satan's 
throne was. They had become worldly minded instead of 
heavenly. Union with the world had bought off its 
enmity, and Satan had accomplished with his wiles what 
he had failed to do with darts. 

14. — False teachers like Balaam were seducing them 
to impurity and unholy alliances, and the Nicolaitans had 
succeeded in introducing their false doctrine. 

16. — Their only hope was the Word. If they failed to 
return to that they must bear the penalty. 

17. — Hidden manna was promised to overcomers. The 
bread of heaven is better than the meat of idols, and the 
approval of God better than comfort and ease here. 



THYATIRA. 



18. — To this church He writes as Son of God, with 
eyes of fire to see all, and with feet of brass to judge 
all. No more exhortations to get back to the pattern : 
all hope hereafter is in the coming of the Lord. 

20. — The motherhood of evil had crept into the Church 
and was allowed there. Something worse than the seduc- 
tion of Balaam was charged, even the open harlotry of 
Jezebel. 

22. — Christ was dethroned, and a woman, calling herself 
a prophetess, permitted to take His place. 

23. — Judgment pronounced was death to her children 
and tribulation to her followers. 

24. — There may be hope for individuals, but none for 
such a system. Putting the name of God on a church or 
an institution will not save it from judgment. 

25. — Hold fast what you have : don't expect Jezebel to 
improve or the world to be any better. 



The Book of Revelation. 



2G.— Keep my works. I'll give you power when I 
receive mine. I am sitting now on a throne of mercy, and 
evil is permitted. Soon I shall sit on a throne of judgment, 
and sin shall be put away. 

28.— The morning star appears just before the day ; 
and is seen only by watchers and early risers. Better to 
receive the morning star there than shine like one here. 



SARDIS. 

Chap. iii. 1. — Our Lord speaks to Sardis as the One 
who has the seven spirits of God or perfection of discern- 
ment. This church is characterized by dead formality and 
an outward decency, but Christian only in name ; vitality 
was absent, and no spiritual energy manifested. After 
making a step in advance and getting away from evil 
doctrine and corrupt practice she stopped. 

2. — Such works might pass before men, but not with 
God. 

8. — The grace and truth of which they were partakers 
ought to have been manifested in their lives. 

4. — Even here were a few who followed Him in purity 
of life ; they have the promise of walking with Him in 
white and to be confessed before the Father. 



PHILADELPHIA. 

7. — The holy and true speaks, who has the key of 
David. 

In this letter there is no reproof, all is mercy and 
blessing. Weak and possessing little strength, holding- 
fast to the Word, He has no reproach for them. 

8. — There is an open door for such that man cannot 
close. When one tries to open a door for himself he fails. 
His word and His name are always linked with His power. 



10 The Book of Rnmlation. 

9. — Keeping His word our greatest security. He will 
take care of our enemies. With God to love us we need 
not fear man's hatred. 

10. — Your time of tribulation is now. The world's 
trial is yet to come, but you will be out of it and at home 
with me. While human names are being honoured you 
keep mine. 

11. — You hold my Word, and I will hold your crown. 

12. — In the place of weakness now, one day you shall 
be a pillar of strength in my temple. 

Satisfied to be unknown here you shall have the 
highest name in heaven when I come. 

Sharing in my patience you shall soon share in my 
glory. 

*Notice the frequent occurrence of the word " my." 



LAODIOEA. 

14. — To this church, where indifference to truth is the 
chief characteristic, our Lord is represented as the true 
and faithful witness ; and here, where the light has been 
the greatest, judgment is to be the heaviest. When testi- 
mony fails in the earth, Christ takes the witness stand 
The fate of this church is absolute extinction, but the 
promise to overcomers is the greatest of all. 

17. — Boasting of riches, statistics, missions, all self — 
nothing of Christ, no sense of need. Satisfied with money 
display and attainments, indifferent to Christ or truth. 

18. — Advises them to look for divine, not creature, 
righteousness, and to procure eye-salve, that they may 
discern. 

20. — Apostasy had been so great that nothing is said of 
the coming Lord. Outside the church, He knocks at 
individual hearts for entrance, and to those who let Him in 
is promised personal communion. 



The Book of lie relation. 11 

21. — A throne in heaven is promised to those who give 
up offered thrones here. To sit with Him there, for over- 
comers who walk with Him and wait for Him here. 



CHAPTER IV. 



The second section ends here and the third begins. 
From here all is future, and cannot be accomplished until 
the present dispensation of the Holy Ghost is ended on earth. 

When the last member of the body of Christ is 
gathered — and no one knows when that may occur — 
the completed church will rise to meet her already ascended 
Head in the air ; and then will begin the unfolding of the 
purposes of God in relation to the Jew and nations which 
have been held in abeyance during this present dispen- 
sation. 

The third chapter ends with an apostate Church spued 
out, while the true Church is caught up. 

How this is done is not shown here, as it is an act of 
grace belonging to the Epistle to the Thessalonians, and 
out of place in Revelation, which is a book of judgment. 

The fourth chapter shows the saints in heaven, and 
in no other way than by the coming of the Lord and the 
resurrection of the just could they have been translated. 

To the risen saints of all ages is given the privilege of 
being witnesses to the fulfilment of the purposes of God 
toward the remainder of the race. 

To ' ; sit with Me in My throne " was the promise which 
here we see fulfilled. Man in redemption has a higher 
place than the angels. We never read that they are 
crowned or sit on thrones. 

The throne of God is in the midst of heaven, not yet 
has He secured His place on earth, but will with coming 
judgment. 



12 The Book of Revelation . 

The four living creatures intimately connected with the 
throne are the messengers of God, whose work it is to carry 
out His purposes in relation to the earth, while round 
about the throne are twenty-four seats occupied by elders, 
church representatives, whether the twelve patriarchs of 
the old dispensation or the twelve apostles of the new, 
clothed, seated and crowned, because their work was done. 
The four living creatures rest not day and night, in worship 
or service. 

3. — The rainbow associates these events with the earth. 
Language fails to describe Him who sitteth on the throne. 

4. — The prayer of our Lord in John xvii. is about to be 
answered " that they may behold my glory." 

5. — Fire, lightnings, and thunder indicate preparation 
for coming judgment. 

6. — No laver bars the way into this Holy place ; all is 
fixed purity here, as indicated by the sea of glass. 

7. — Majesty, labour, intelligence and rapid execution 
are the characteristics of the lion, ox, man and eagle, 
and these living creatures are described as being distin- 
guished for keenness of vision, activity in service, and 
purity of worship. 

9. — Their praise has nothing of self or what they had 
done, glory is given here alone to Him that sat on the 
throne. 

10. — The elders bow and worship, their crowns were 
His by right and theirs by grace, so at His feet they fall, 
" They join the everlasting song and crown Him Lord of all." 



CHAPTER V. 



The throne here is seen in connection with redemp- 
tion, and the book contains the title deeds of the Kingdom 
yet to be established upon the earth. 



The Book of Revelation. 13 

Impenetrable to man or angel, it is open to Him who 
at the beginning of Gentile supremacy commanded Daniel 
to seal the book until the time of the end. Dan. xii. 4. 

The one that sealed it can open it. 

To the Jew all is sealed because a veil is over their 
eyes, but to the Christian all is open, for the spirit of 
truth teaches us " all things," and is promised to show us 
" things to come." 

2. — Heaven challenges the world to produce a man, 
scholar, or higher critic to open the book, and none were 
able to produce such. The challenge is open yet, and the 
book is sealed. Man, who is so lauded and deified here, is 
of no account there. 

5. — The man counted unfit to live on earth finds his 
value and place in Heaven. 

The elders knew who was worthy, and what was the 
value of His blood and the power of His redemption. 

The root of David refers to His Godhood. 

The tribe of Judah connects Him with Israel. 

The Lamb slain refers to Him in redemption. 

6. — " In the midst." He is now the central figure of 
Heaven w 7 ho once condescended to be " in the midst of two 
or three gathered in His name." Matt, xviii. 20. 

The meek and lowly lamb in grace is turned to a lion 
in wrath and judgment. 

7. — He receives the Book. His own words are fulfilled, 
and the parable of the nobleman explained. Luke xix. 12. 

Jesus was the nobleman, Heaven was the far country, the 
earth was His kingdom, and His second coming His return. 

The book contains the title to the " hid treasure." 

He has bought the field (Matt, xiii.), but an enemy, the 
Anti-Christ, is in possession, and not until He has driven 
out " all things that offend" can He establish His throne 
over His millennial kingdom. 



14 The Rook of Revelation. 

8. — In the 4 th chapter worship is given to God as Creator. 
In the 5th chapter worship is before the Lamb as Redeemer. 
With incense and harps the elders worship and praise. 

9. — In creation's Song " the morning stars sang 
together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." Job 
xxxviii. 7. 

Song of deliverance when Israel crossed the Red Sea. 
Ex. xv. 1. 

Redemption's Song by the angels — " Peace on earth." 
Luke ii. 13, 14. 

The New Song of the redeemed—" Worthy the Lamb." 

10. — The two families here spoken of " us to God" 
referring to the Church, and " them to be a kingdom of 
priests," referring to Israel on the earth. 

11. — The angels join in praise with the living creatures 
and the Elders. Worthy the Lamb to receive sevenfold, 
or the perfection of worship. 

13. — All creation takes up the strain. Here the praise 
is fourfold (the world number). Now creation groans; 
then the earth will sing in joyful anticipation of re- 
demption. Angels and the redeemed of all ages, together 
with all created things, will one day unite in the halle- 
lujah chorus of praise to the now rejected Lamb. 



CHAPTER VI. 

The opemng of the seals is accompanied with thunder 
indicating judgment, the voice of grace is no longer heard. 
It is all judgment now. 

This chapter is explained by Matthew xxiv and should 
be read with it, as it relates to the first series of 
hardening judgments spoken of by our Lord. 

2 — The white horse might represent a deceiver or false 
Christ. The bow is his instrument of war. Jesus has 
but one weapon the sword of the spirit. 



The Book of Revelation, 15 

Christ was rejected by the world, but this anti- 
Christian infidel is welcomed and crowned. 

4 — The red horse indicates blood or war. Power was 
given him for a purpose. 

Jesus came to bring peace on earth ; this instrument of 
Satan takes peace from the earth, and with the present 
facilities for extermination, the many millions that might 
be destroyed in another war is something terrible to 
contemplate. 

5. — The black horse indicates mourning and sorrow 
on account of scarcity and famine, when a day's wages 
will be required for bread enough for a day. 

At this time the prayer ''Give us this day our daily 
bread" will have greater significance than now, when 
many repeat it whose garners are overflowing. 

"Hurt not the oil and the wine" would imply that 
famine was confined to breadstuffs. 

8. — The pale horse tells us of death. His power 
is restricted to one quarter of the earth. These remind us 
o£ the four sore judgments recorded in Ezek. xiv. 21. 

These are only the beginning of sorrows. 

9. — The cry of the " souls under the altar" speaks to us 
of the temple, and also shows that the removal of the 
church from the earth has not improved man, and the 
connection indicates that the Word of God is still preached 
by faithful messengers, and unpopular as ever. 

All Jewish and earthly, " Ye shall be hated of all men 
for my name's sake, but he that shall endure to the end 
shall be saved." Matt. xxiv. 13. 

These are afterward associated with God's witnesses, 
who go out to preach the gospel of the kingdom to the 
nations, and are persecuted and slain for their testimony. 

10. — Old Testament ground. Such is never the prayer 
of a Christian. Rom. xii. 10. Similar prayers for ven- 
geance may be found in a number of imprecatory psalms. 



16 The Book of Revelation. 

These cry for judgment on their enemies, while the cry 
of Christ and His church is " Father, forgive." 

11. — White robes, a token of acceptance, were given 
with the assurance of deliverance and reward after this 
time of tribulation was passed. Rev. xx. 4. 

12. — At the opening of the sixth seal a violent earth- 
quake or convulsion of society takes place. The sun,, 
moon, and stars might represent prominent leaders in 
society, ecclesiastical powers, political systems and things 
generally that men look up to and trust in. Matt. xxiv. 29. 

14. — Although the whole world is moved this is only a 
prelude to the tribulation and the beginning of sorrows. 

15. —Great alarm among men. Seven classes of people 
troubled. Those who never prayed now call on the rocks 
and mountains, not on God. They pray for escape, but 
not for mercy, knowing that the day of grace has passed, 
and believing that the great day of wrath is come. 



CHAPTER VII. 



An interval occurs between the opening of the Gth and 
7th seals, where we catch a glimpse of offered mercy in 
the midst of appalling judgments. 

A multitude, both of Jews and Gentiles, are to be saved 
out of the great tribulation, as Noah was saved out of the 
deluge, and Israel in Egypt was saved w T hen the Angel 
of death passed over the land. 

In Matt. xxiv. 31, and Isaiah xi. 12, we are told how 
this remnant of believing Israel is to be gathered, and here 
we learn how they are to be sealed as a protection from the 
coming judgments. 

Angels who so frequently in the Scriptures are 
messengers of mercy, here become the ministers of 
judgment and wrath. 



The Book of Revelation. 17 

2. — The body of Christ had been sealed long before 
this in their hearts by the Spirit (2 Cor. i. 22), and are 
now witnesses of the sealing of these servants of God. 

In the time of the prophet Ezekiel a " mark was set 
on the foreheads of those who sighed and cried for the 
abominations done in their midst" (Ezek. ix. 4); and in 
Malachi we read of the remnant who feared the Lord for 
whom a book of remembrance was opened. Mai. iii. 16. 

In all ages God had a believing people, and though 
even Elijah may not be able to see, yet there is a remnant 
" seven thousand, who have not bowed the knee to Baal." 

On this remnant His Eye ever rests, and in His own time 
He will "send fishers to fish them and hunters to hunt them 
and bring them to the land of their fathers." Jer. xvi. 15-17. 

3. — These are His servants, elect Jews, not sons or 
children. Sealed in their foreheads represents a quickened 
intellect, and it is difficult to conceive in these degenerate 
days of preaching of the power and success that shall 
attend the testimony of these servants of God as they go 
out to the nations of the earth to preach the gospel of 
the Kingdom so soon to be set up. 

Some conception of their successful ministry may be 
ormed as we read of their converts in the 9th verse. 

4. — Twelve is the number of ministry and divine 
government administered through man. 

5. — Twelve thousand of twelve tribes of Israel— Jewish. 

6. — These could not represent the Church, as she is 
declared to be neither Jew nor Gentile. 

7. — Israel's blessing is future and always in the earth : 
the Church has her blessings in the heavenlies. Eph. i. 3. 

8. — First Israel is sealed, afterwards the Gentiles are 
saved. 

9. — A great multitude of the nations here saved through 
the preaching of the " gospel of the Kingdom" (Matt xxiv. 
14) by these sealed and quickened Jews. 



18 The Book of Revelation. 

These have rohes and palms ; no crowns, thrones, or 
harps. 

10.— Their cry is one of thanksgiving for salvation. 

11. — Angels, elders, and living creatures join in seven- 
fold praise. 

13. — The elder knew the company, for he had the Book. 

14. — These are like Israel kept through the tribulation, 
and have no reference to the church which had been saved 
and taken away from the earth long before the tribulation 
set in, according to promise of Rev. iii. 10. 

The tribulation is spoken of as Jacob's trouble. 
Jer. xxx. 7. 

Also as a time when Israel shall be delivered. Dan. xii. 1. 

Takes place after the abomination of desolation is set 
up in the Holy place — future. Matt. xxiv. 15-22. 

15. — These serve in the temple and before His throne. 
He spreads His tabernacle over them again as He did in 
wilderness days. Isa. iv. 5, 6. 

16. — These blessings are in connection with Israel on 
the earth. Isa. xlix. 10. 

17. — All blessing, earthly or heavenly, temporal or 
spiritual, is the result of union with the Lamb. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

The judgments connected with the trumpets are greater 
in severity than those with the seals. 

Silence reigns for a time in heaven as the prayers of the 
earthly saints ascend to the throne during the tribulation. 

2. — The seven angels are heralds of judgment, and the 
trumpets remind us of the giving of the law. Ex. xix. 16,19. 

First sounding in connection with every department of 
the universe. 

3. — The golden censer and incense altar take us back 
to the Tabernacle, and suggest grace and mercy. The 



The Book of Revelation. 19 



angel adds much incense to the prayers of the saints, so 
the Holy Ghost in this dispensation adds His intercession 
to our feeble and imperfect petitions. Rom. viii. 2G, 27. 

The parable of the Unjust Judge is here explained. 
See Luke xviii. 7. " His own elect that have been crying 
to Him day and night" are not forgotten, and the effect of 
their prayers is about to be manifested. 

4. — The same merciful and faithful High Priest 
intercedes for them and cannot fail. Rom. viii. 26. 

5. — The incense or perfume used in the offerings speak 
of the efficacy of the death of Christ, and while it calls for 
blessing on His followers it equally calls for vengeance on 
His enemies. Grace is turned to judgment and mercy is 
followed by wrath. 

7. — The first blow on property is from hail and fire 
destroying those things that men value most. Isa. xxviii. 2. 

These are similar to the plagues in Egypt upon Pharaoh 
in the days of Moses. Exod. ix. 23. 

8 — The great mountain might represent some exalted 
power as the sea represents society and the nations. 

Jeremiah refers to a similar mountain in connection 
with Babylon. Jer. li. 25. 

In Egypt the river they worshipped was turned into 
blood, and now the sea and commerce and sources of food 
and traffic become blood. 

10 — 'First the earth, then the sea, now rivers and 
fountains of supply. 

11 — The star might suggest a ruler or mighty one in 
authority, who had been looked up to and worshipped. 
They had refused Him who had the water of life, and 
now what they had chosen gave no satisfaction but rather 
turned to wormwood and gall. As in the wilderness 
Marah is written on all human springs that have not been 
sweetened by the cross. Ex. xv. 25. 



20 The Book of He relation. 

Their riches have become corrupted, their treasures 
rusted, and their garments moth-eaten, surely they have 
heaped together treasure for the bonfire of the last day. 
James v. 2, 3. 

12 — The highest authorities smitten. Human reason, 
power and glory fall. Wonders in heaven and earth. 
Joel ii. 30. 

Despising the light of God whether physical or 
spiritual, He sends thick darkness. 2 Thes. ii. 12. 

13. — The rest of the woes increase in terror and fall on 
men rather than property. 

The messenger of God is compared to an eagle, a figure 
frequently used in prophecy, and may refer to one of the 
living creatures that stand before the throne to carry out 
the purposes of God towards the earth. Jer. xlviii. 40 ; 
Hosea viii. 1. 



CHAPTER IX. 

1. — The star might be some notable teacher of spiritual- 
ism and infidelity, to whom was given unusual powers to 
unlock the demons of the under world. 

Our Lord has the keys of hell and death, but for a pur- 
pose and a time He permits their use by the king of dark- 
ness. 

2. — The bottomless pit or abyss might be the same 
locality as that where the angels who sinned are confined. 
2 Peter ii. 4 ; also Jude G. Possibly too where Jesus sent 
the legion of devils. Luke viii. 31 ; or the place where our 
Lord descended, and also called the lower parts of the 
earth. Eph. iv. 9. Where scripture is silent it is useless 
to speculate, and we cannot speak positively. 

Darkness we know, however, is a fit accompaniment of 
demons, the instrument of their prince. Luke xxii. 53. 



The Book of Eevelation. 21 



3. — Locusts with the power of scorpions, agents of 
destruction, stinging to death what they do not eat. 

4.— Their natural instincts restrained, and their venom 
turned on men not sealed of God. For further references 
to locusts, see Ex. x. 4, Joel. i. 4. 

5.— Tortured to the limit of human endurance, a taste 
of what our Lord endured from the hands of men. The 
judgment that they had called down upon themselves and 
their children. Matt, xxvii. 25. 

6. — Death is no longer feared, but desired as a relief, 
and welcomed and sought ; but death flees away — no more 
suicides. 

7. — A strange combination of Satanic ingenuity, 
uniting beastly power and human cunning, a compound of 
six different beings. 

11. — As God had a man on the earth, the Saviour of 
mankind, so Satan has an opposite, Apolyon, the destroyer. 

13. — The altar made for intercession becomes the 
throne of judgment. 

14. — Angels reserved in chains at Euphrates, the same 
place that Babylon is to be judged. Jer. li. 63. Babylon 
is always associated with this river in judgment. Jer. 
xiii. and xlvi. chaps. 

16. — An army larger than any known in history. 

Undoubtedly this refers to the literal baptism of fire 
spoken of in Obad. xviii., Isa. xlvii. 14, Isa. Ixvi. 15, 16. 

18. — One- third of men killed by fire, smoke, and 
brimstone. 

20. — Like the plagues in Egypt, these judgments only 
harden their hearts, causing no repentance from sin or 
idolatry. Showing that they who reject the offered mercy 
of God will not be softened by His judgments. 

21. — We see here the class of people that will be left 
upon the earth after the church is gone. Civilization will 
go on, and world-improving machinery will do its best, but 



22 The Booh of Revelation. 

the end will demonstrate that man without God is a 
hopeless wreck, and ruin, and murderers and sorcerers will 
continue to flourish, and idolatry and devil-worship con- 
tinue to the end. 

Men who have rejected Christ here drawn by the power 
of the Holy Ghost and the Word of God, will have no desire 
for Christ or heaven after the Spirit and the church are 
taken away. 2 Thess. ii. 7. 



CHAPTER X. 



A parenthesis occurs between the 6th and 7th 
trumpets. 

1. — The mighty Angel, or Angel of Jehovah, clothed 
with a cloud, token of Jehovah's presence ; the rainbow about 
His head, reminding us of His covenant with the earth. 

The shining of His face and feet of fire speak of the 
supreme glory and terrible majesty of the ancient of days 
described in Daniel vii. and Rev. i. 

2. — A little book, not the Book of Life or the title deeds 
of the Kingdom, but probably connected with the 70th 
week of Daniel and relating to Israel. This we read was 
to be sealed unto the time of the end. Dan. xii. 4-9. 

3. — The loud voice, like a lion — the voice of authority 
— accompanied with judgment. Jer. xxv. 30. 

4.— The book to be sealed until the time of fulfilment, 
when the Spirit, descending upon the Jew, shall make 
further revelations possibly than may be revealed to us. 

5, 6. — This language cannot be used in connection with 
the Church, as she is not a part of time, and as God's deal- 
ings with Israel are fulfilled in seventy weeks, this must 
refer to that period when time for Israel shall end. 

7- — There are twelve mysteries spoken of in the 
Scriptures, and all included in the mystery of God, which 
comprehends all His purposes concerning the race. 



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The mystery of godliness and the mystery of iniquity 
run side by side throughout the Scriptures. 1 Tim. iii. 16. 
The first was finished with the completion and removal of 
the " body of Christ" or Church ; the second is to run on 
until all is fulfilled that has been prophesied concerning 
Israel and the nations. 

That the second is referred to is evident from the 
language — ' w He hath declared to His servants the 
prophets," who only speak of things connected with time, 
Israel and the nations. 

8-10. — The apostle's experience is similar to that of the 
prophet Ezekiel. Truth may be sweet to the taste, but 
when it takes hold of the inward parts, it is bitter and painful. 
For a prophet or preacher to speak of grace and mercy is 
to be pleasing and popular, but to tell of coming vengeance 
and judgment is to lose popularity and insure bitterness. 

Yet truth must be told out at any expense. 



CHAPTER XI. 



1. — Here all is Jewish and connected with Jerusalem. 
The holy city and temple, altar and ark, speak to us of a 
temple re-built and worship renewed by His now cast-off 
people. Ezek. xl. 

2. — Times of the Gentiles, beginning with the reign of 
Nebuchadnezzar, and continuing to the coming of the 
Lord. The fulness of the Gentiles is a little longer delayed. 

3. — The two witnesses spoken of here undoubtedly refer 
to the Law and the Prophets of which Moses and Elias 
were the honoured representatives. 

Their testimony is renewed for a brief time ; sackcloth 
indicates sorrow and woe. 

4. — Two is the number of testimony. Matt, xviii. 16. 



:2 1 The Book of Revelation. 

The olive tree represents the fruit of the Spirit, and the 
candlestick probably the light of the Word, for the two go 
together and agree. 

They stand before God, not man, and this is the secret 
of their success, like Elijah. 1 Kings xvii. 1. 

5. — What Christ rebuked under grace (Lukeix. 54) is per- 
mitted under law renewed as of old. 1 Kings xviii. 38-40. 

6. — Power similar to that given to Elijah and Moses, 
calling down fire and turning water into blood. 

7. — Satan is not allowed to harm them until their 
testimony, the gospel of the kingdom, is finished. 

8. — Jerusalem now as wicked as Sodom, infidel as 
Egypt. Killing these witnesses probably the first publicly 
persecuting act of the anti-Christ. 

9. — Eour classes rejoice over their murder. Four is 
the world number and the extent of the field of testimony 
of the witnesses, perhaps the 144,000 who in the power of 
the Spirit have gone out to all nations. Whether this be 
true or not, there is no need of confining them to two 
literally, as two is a symbolic number. 

10. — Rejoicing over their death. Truth-tellers are 
always tormentors to the evil-doers. The world does not 
seem to have changed. History repeats itself, and we 
have an illustration of what over sixty passages of God's 
Word declare in the New Testament alone, that the world 
will grow worse and worse until the end. 

11. — God's way of vindicating straight preachers. 
They are given a special resurrection and taken to heaven 
in sight of their enemies. 

12. — Rejected on earth, they are taken to heaven to join 
the waiting souls under the altar. Rev. vi. 11. The three 
classes in heaven seem to be represented by three classes 
on the Mount of Transfiguration, which, we believe, is a 
miniature picture of the coming Kingdom. Matt. xvi. 28. 

Our Lord represents the Chinch, Moses those who 



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died and are resurrected, and Elias those who are translated 
and do not see death, one family in heaven. 

Peter, James, aud John might represent Israel and the 
nation in fleshly bodies on- the earth. 

13. — Speedy judgment frightens them into giving glory 
to the God of heaven, but they do not bow to Him on 
earth or take refuge in His offered mercy. 

15. — Announcement of the end. His Kingdom about 
to be set up. The Jewish prayer answered, " Thy 
Kingdom come." The saints of the Most High come into 
possession. Dan. vii. 27. 

16. — Great rejoicing in heaven among the Elders. 
Worship here rendered to God as Creator. 

17. —Power and glory, so long usurped by man, now 
taken by Him to whom it belongs. 

18. — The day of wrath; mercy is ended. The dead are 
judged, prophets rewarded, and enemies destroyed. 

19. — The temple in Heaven opened and the Ark, which 
is always associated with the presence of God, is seen. 
Nothing is said concerning the Mercy Seat, but rather the 
things that accompany wrath. 

Since the days of Daniel, Jehovah has been the " God 
of Heaven," and properly His temple is there, but when He 
shall restore Israel to their own land He shall dwell in Zion 
or Jerusalem, and be the hope and joy of His people. 
Joel hi. 16. 



CHAPTER XIL 



The 12th, 13th, and 14th chapters comprise one section. 

1. — The woman, we believe, represents Israel surrounded 
with the Shekinah glory. Ezek. xliii. 2. 

The dream of Joseph finds its spiritual fulfilment. 
Gen. xxxvii. 9. 

2. — When Jesus came the first time there was no pain 



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or travail in Israel, but at His second coming there will be, 
and a nation shall be born at once. Isaiah liv. 1 ; lxvi. 
7, 8. 

3. — The dragon represents satanic agency, with the per- 
fection of intelligence, but a limitation of power. Crowns 
would seem to indicate popularity. 

4. — Ecclesiastics and those high in profession are 
drawn after him. Prince of the power of the air. Eph. ii. 2. 

5. — Jesus was the only man child who can rule all 
nations. He is so declared in 2nd Psalm. 

He was the " first begotten of the dead." Made Head 
of the body. In connection with Israel He is the " faith- 
ful witness and prince of the kings of the earth." Rev. i. 5. 

He is now caught up to the throne until His enemies 
are made His footstool. Heb. i. 13. 

None other are " caught up " except the members of 
His body, that the new man might be complete. 1 Thess. 
iv. 17. 

Just as Joseph was elevated to the throne of Egypt 
before the famine, so the man child will be raised to* the 
throne of government before the tribulation. 

6. — The woman is the special object of Satan's hatred, 
but loved of God, who prepares a place for her as Ee had 
prepared the ark for Noah and a place of shelter for Israel 
in Egypt. Isa. xxvi. 21. 

The flight of the woman is foretold in Matt. xxiv. 16-20. 

7. — Now Satan's malice is directed towards the Church. 
Eph. vi. 11-16. He is the accuser of the brethren ; but 
we have an Advocate with the Father, the Son of God. 
1 John ii. 1. 

Satan has access to heaven. Job vi. 12 ; Zech. iii. 1 ; 
Eph. vi. 12. 

Heaven must be purified from all unclean. Heb. ix. 23. 

8. — This is the time our Lord refers to in Luke x. 18, 



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and the first exhibition of power over Satan, of whom four 
falls are recorded. 

(1.) Out of heaven into the air. Luke x. 18. 

Into the earth. Rev. xii. 12. 

Into the bottomless pit. Rev. xx. 2. 

Into the lake of fire. Rev. xx. 10. 

11. — Three marks of overcomers of Satan, in all ages. 

The blood their shelter. Ex. xii. 13. 

The word their weapon. Eph. vi. 17. 

The love of God their power. 2 Cor. v. 14. 

12. — Satan's time is limited as well as his sphere. The 
time referred to here is probably the latter half of Daniel's 
70th week, a time of trouble, such as the world never saw. 
Dan. xii. 1. 

13. — Increased hatred and persecution of the woman. 

14. — The remnant of Israel cared for and hidden. 
The nations that trouble her are warned that they touch 
the apple of His eye. Zech. ii. 8. 

15. — Miraculous deliverance spoken of in Isa. lix. 10. 

17. — The remnant on Jewish ground keeping the com- 
mandments of God. The language of the 79th and 80th 
Psalms peculiarly appropriate now. 

The testimony of Jesus Christ refers to the Old Testa- 
ment Scriptures concerning the Kingdom. Rev. xix. 10. 

The remnant of her seed purified — made white. 
Dan. xii. 10. 

The two tribes go through severe afflictions, from which 
the ten tribes are kept. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



In this remarkable chapter we have the union of 
Church and State, of Civil and Ecclesiastical Power. 

1. — The sea represents the nations, and the beast, 
heretofore hidden, is similar to the beast of Daniel vii., 



28 The Bool,- of Revelation. 

and stands for some great powers who have no understand- 
ing of God. 

2. — Satan finds one willing to take the kingdom that 
Jesus refused. In the three animals spoken of here, leopard, 
bear, and lion, we see a combination of all that is beastly 
and brutal, invested with Satanic authority and power. 

3. — The wounded and sealed head shows the future 
resurrection of some interrupted power, probably Rome. 

4. — Those who would not worship God worship the 
dragon and the beast. The language of a wondering 
world is, "Who is like unto the beast." How different 
from the psalm of thanksgiving of their forefathers at the 
Red Sea, " Who is like unto Thee, Lord, among the 
gods." Ex. xv. 11. 

5. — A mouth was given him in imitation of Him who 
"spake as never man spake." Power also was given, but 
limited. 

6.— The name, person, house and people of God blas- 
phemed. 

7. — He has nothing that is not given Him, and does 
nothing that is not permitted. 

War with the saints. " Two-thirds cut off and die.'' 
The ten tribes are not involved in this trouble. Zech. xiii.8,9. 

The heathen that refuse to bow to Jesus welcome the 
beast." John v. 43. 

8. — Devil-worship is to be the end of our boasted 
civilization and progress. 

" From the foundation of the world" refers always to 
Israel and the nations. Matt. xxv. 34. 

The church is " chosen in Him before the foundation of 
the world." Eph. i. 4. 

9.— Those who have an ear for the truth cannot be 
deceived. 

10. — A time to severely try even the elect Jew. Matt. 
xxiv. 22. 



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The patience and faith of the saints rewarded. Dan. 
xi. 32. 

11. — The false prophet is the second of the satanic 
trinity. In appearance as a lamb, but speaking as a 
dragon. The sheep cannot be deceived by strangers ; they 
know His voice and they follow Him. John x. 4. 

12. — The coming man, and his last attempt to take the 
place of God. The final confederacy of human powers. 
The '' God of forces " exalted. Dan. xi. 38. 

13. — The heading up of man's ingenuity is the pro- 
duction of a counterfeit of the God that answers by fire. 
1 Kings xviii, 24. ; Lev. ix. 24. 

14. — From first to last Satan is a deceiver. Idolatry, 
always forbidden by God, is renewed here, and encouraged. 
The last state worse than the first. Matt. xii. 43, 45. 

Men given over to a strong delusion. 2 Thes. ii. 12. 

15. — The god of the scientist, freethinker, philosopher, 
and spiritualist. The Anti-Christ. At the beginning of 
Gentile supremacy, man was compelled to worship an 
image, so here. Dan. iii. 6. Kefusing to comply, they 
are put to death. 

16. — Mark of ownership in the forehead, of service in 
the hand. The culmination of trades unions, combina- 
tions, and trusts. The last boycott. 

17. — No place left on earth for those who fear the 
Lord. Matt. xxiv. 9. 

18. — The full and final development of evil. The 
harvest of iniquity. 

The number of the beast, 666. Six is man's number, 
three of the trinity or completeness of man's effort, just 
short of seven, the number of perfection. 



30 The Booh of Iievelation. 

CHAPTER XIV. 

Seven distinct things in this chapter, all relating to the 
earth, should be read with the 7th chapter. 

Mount Zion, the place of past and future blessing. 
Jerusalem. 

The remnant are here rejoicing after the tribulation is 
passed, and they are saved out of it. 

His Father's name to Israel, to us my new name. 
Rev. iii. 12. 

3. — The song of redemption peculiar to Israel. Ps. 
xcvi., xcviii. 

Similar to the song after passing the Red Sea. Ex. xv. 

The song -when they shall be restored to Palestine. Isa.xii. 

They sing before the throne and Elders. 

4. — These are the first fruits of the earthly remnant 
who find their place in heaven, like the witnesses who 
were slain for their testimony. These are outcomers from 
the tribulation. The harvest is to follow. They are noted 
for purity. They are separated and singular, blameless 
and faultless. 

6. — The last call from heaven before judgment falls. 

Now is preached the gospel of salvation, here all is 
judgment. Nothing of Christ, or love, or grace. All fear. 

Worship is offered to Him as Creator, not as now " the 
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." 

8.— God's witness to the fall of Babylon. The end of 
Babel's systems and her corrupt practices. 

9. — Warning against the worship and mark of the beast. 

10. — Penalty. They shall drink the wine of God's 
wrath and be tormented with fire. 

11. — Better to be killed by the beast than be tormented 
for ever. 

12. — Patience, faith, and obedience of the saints re- 
warded. 



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13. — A dreadful thing to be lulled for their testimony 
just before the Lord comes ; and, though they lose their 
earthly inheritance, they receive something better — a 
heavenly. Rev. xix. 9. 

14s. — The coming of the Son of Man, accompanied by 
clouds. His crown an emblem of sovereignty, the sickle 
an emblem of the harvest. Joel hi. 13. 

15. — The harvest, or end of the ages. At last the 
wheat is separated from the tares. Matt. xiii. 

18. — The vintage follows the harvest. Jesus was once 
trodden in the wine press ; now His enemies are. 

The day of vengeance and the year of His redeemed 
has come. Isa. lxiii. 4, and xxxiv. 7. 

Christ is the true vine, we are the branches. 

Israel is the vine out of Egypt. This is the vine of the 
earth. Joel iii. 13. 

God's law is fruit or fire, bear or burn. Matt. hi. 10. 

20. — As Jesus suffered ''outside the gate," so His 
enemies dealt with " without the city," and the space 
described is just the distance from Dan to Beersheba. 



CHAPTER XV. 

Chapters xv. and xvi. should be read together, being a 
new division. 

1. — Like the plagues in Egypt these seven fill up the 
measure of the wrath of God. 

2. — The remnant tried by fire and purified with suffer- 
ing stand on the sea of glass, symbolizing fixed purity, 
reminding us of the laver of brass before the Holy place 
used for cleansing hands and feet. 

3. — Celebrating the works and ways of God. Ps. cvi. 

Similar to Israel's song of redemption after crossing 
the Ked Sea. Moses and the Lamb connect it with 
Israel's history, The titles King and Almighty associate 



32 The Book of Revelation. 

it with the nations. King of the ages here but nowhere 
King of the Church. All nations refer to those who accept 
the gospel. 

5. — No ark appears. Grace is ended, all is judgment. 

6. — God is righteous and glorified in judgment as in 
grace. 

7. — Those who would not accept His mercy feel His 
wrath. 

8. — The Glory of God that once filled the temple on 
earth in grace, now fills the temple in Heaven in judgment. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



1. — The seven vials of wrath are poured out upon the- 
things upon which men had set their hearts and affections. 

He deals with the gods of modern days as He once 
dealt with the gods of Egypt. 

2. — The first plague connected with idolatry, as the 
first commandment had been directed against it. 

They had pained the heart of their Creator, He sends 
pain into their bodies. 

3, 4. — Dealing in righteousness. They shed the blood 
of His Son ; now they are compelled to drink blood. 
They said — His blood be upon our heads ; now blood is 
in their mouths. Surely if the blood of Abel calls for 
judgment, the blood of Jesus for vengeance. Luke xviii. 
7, 8. 

5, 6, 7. — The evidence of men and angels that God is 
just and true. 

8. — Men worshipped the sun ; now it scorches and 
burns them. The worshippers of nature and science find 
a God beyond their thought or comprehension. 

9. — Shows that there is no more repentance under 
the fires of judgment than in the attractions of grace. 



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10. — Rejecting the light, there is nothing left for them 
but to feel the power of darkness. With sufferings so 
intense that they gnaw their tongues with pain, they still 
curse God to His face. 

11. — As in the days of Pharaoh, judgment only hardens 
their hearts. 

12. — This would indicate that physical barriers are to 
be removed, that the last great confederacy may have full 
opportunity for development. 

The heading up of alliances, trusts, and combinations, 
preparatory to their final overthrow. Isa. viii. 9. 

13. — These three frogs represent a trinity of evil and 
un cleanness that go out to deceive the nations into a 
hopeless conflict with the Almighty. 

The Holy Ghost gathers the saints for blessing, but 
Satan gathers the nations to their fall. Zeph. iii. 8. 

14. — Spiritism working miracles in imitation of Jesus. 

15. — Warning that the coming Lord is near. Blessing 
promised to those who watch and are faithful. 

16. — Preparations for judgment on those who have 
touched the people of God. 

17. — The last vial is poured out into the air, the place 
of Satan's power and authority. 

The kingdom and patience is about ended. Here 
follows a mighty shaking of all things human. Heaven 
and earth flee away, but the Word of God endures. Mark 
xiii. 31. 

19. — Cities, the work of men's hands, especially 
remembered. The cup of judgment overflows. Though 
long delayed the punishment of Babylon is sure. 

21. — Blasphemy to the end, no softening of hearts, no 
bowing of knees, " mouths full of cursing and bitterness." 



34 The Book of Revelation. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

This chapter should be read with chapter xiii. In 
chapter xiii. we see the development of evil ; here we see 
the end. The angel showed these things to John ; the 
Holy Spirit shows them to us. 

In Babylon and the harlot we see Satan's imitation of 
the Holy City and the Bride. 

1. — The things that are popular with the world are 
sure to come into judgment before God. 

2. — Her companions the kings of the earth, her 
character unchaste, her occupation drunkenness and 
fornication. 

3. — The scarlet woman an imperial character, and one 
of the three mysterious evil women of Scripture. The 
same principle of evil characterized them, whether it be 
Jezebel, who corrupted Ahab ; the woman of Matt, xiii., 
who corrupted the children's bread ; or the harlot here, 
who corrupted all the earth. 

Powerful (ten horns), and intelligent (seven heads), but 
with no conscience or understanding of God. 

4. — Contrast the scarlet and purple of the harlot with 
the clothing of the Bride in white. 

The harlot sits on a beast, while the Bride sits in the 
heavenlies. Her cup is of gold, but filled with unclean- 
ness and idolatry. 

5. — This is not only an iniquitous system, but also 
gives birth to others. On her forehead, apparent to all, 
was her shameless sign and confession of sin. 

G.— Revelling in cruelty and oppression, and drunk 
with the blood of the saints. 

7. — The explanation and heading up of the mystery of 
iniquity. We need the Holy Spirit to perceive the devices 
and workings of Satan, as well as to discern the purposes 
and ways of God. 



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8. — The beast, in principle, represents some temporal 
power of Satanic origin and hellish destiny. 

It is not our purpose to speak positively as to who are 
meant by these powers ; other and abler writers have given 
their opinions, and their conclusions have been ingenious, 
if not satisfactory. Sufficient for us to suggest that in 
the present and rapid development of evil, while the Holy 
Spirit predominates, greater and more marvellous things 
will come to pass when the church is gone. Many and 
great will be the changes, and to speak where Scripture is 
silent is only to speculate whether it be in applying these 
characters to past history, present days, or future develop- 
ments. 

Much confusion and discouragement to honest students 
has arisen from the wide differences of gifted teachers on 
these chapters, and we are forced to turn away to Him 
who has promised by His Spirit to show us as far and as 
fast as we are able to receive them, " things to come." 

9. — Babylon we know was the fountain head of pagan 
idolatry, and Rome the source of spiritual idolatry. She 
sits still on the seven hills, and is to be an important factor 
in the " mystery of iniquity." 

10. — The past, present, and future of Kingly power in 
association with church authority, or union of church and 
state. 

11. — A power interrupted, resurrected and finally 
obliterated. 

12. — The ten Kings with future, yet brief, authority, 
seem to answer to the ten toes of the image in Daniel ii. 

13. — Probably Jewish apostates, Christian professors, 
and political systems united in giving power to Rome. 

14. — The conflict of the ages, the result seen in 
chap. xix. 

15. — The nations that have refused the Lamb, accept the 
woman's rule, four classes (world number) governed by her. 



36 The Book of Revelation. 

1G. — The powers that crowned her, now destroy her, 
the last of sects, creeds, and so-called Christendom. God's 
way always to judge the false and bring out the true. So 
the false woman is destroyed before the marriage of the 
Lamb. 

17. — Doing just what was foretold andpre-determined. 
Men will then learn that God means what He says. 

Here the mystery of the little book is made known, till 
now sealed, as foretold to Daniel. 

As their fathers had united with the Roman power to 
reject Christ, so now, history repeats itself. Nominal 
Christianity ends in open infidelity, and even the ungodly 
world recoils at last against this corruptress. 

The end of all systems, protestant or popish, that 
have no warrant in the Word of God, will be entire 
destruction in the battle of the great day of the Lord God 
Almighty. True Christians will be there as witnesses. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



1. — All earthly here. In Gen. x. we have a descriptio 
of the beginning of Babel ; here her overthrow is foretold. 
In the beginning Nimrod concentrated power in himself. 
He was the founder of Babel, and the outcome of it is seen 
in Gen. chapter xi., where men combine together to build 
up for themselves a name. 

Babylon was the primitive source of idolatry, and 
Nebuchadnezzar its head. She was chief instrument in 
Israel's idolatry, the means of their judgment and the place 
of their captivity. 

It is the old sin of Cain — the world's religion of ease, 
influence, and luxury. It abounds even in Protestantism, 
for wherever the Lord is not fully owned, His Word fully 
obeyed, and His Spirit followed, there is Babylon. 



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In this chapter Babylon falls. God deals first with 
His own people, afterwards with their corrupters. In Jer. 
li. we have her downfall fully prophesied. She displays 
greatness while Jerusalem the city of God is trodden. 
She is great and popular while Christ is rejected. She is 
not entirely heathen in her character, for she may profess 
Christ crucified and refuse to know or follow Him as a 
rejected Saviour. Kings are her friends, the earth her 
subjects, and while religious she is on good terms with the 
world. 

2. — The mustard seed of Matt. xiii. is here seen in full 
development. Its roots are sunken deeply into the earth ; 
its branches welcome every unclean thing, and by com- 
promising with the world she has bought off its enmity. 

3. — Nations, kings and merchants have become en- 
riched by her corruption and pampered with her delicacies. 

4. — Like Lot in Sodom God's people must be out before 
the fire falls. The first call to Abram was " Get thee out," 
and the last call from heaven is, " Come out of her, my 
people, and be not partakers of her sins." 

7. — Babylon glorified herself ; the Church glorifies 
Christ. Babylon sits as a queen ; the Church sits a 
widow. Babylon lives for the earth ; the Church lives for 
heaven. Babylon corrupts the truth ; the Church defends 
it. Babylon persecutes the saints ; the Church endures 
persecution. 

8. — Swift and sudden destruction by famine and fire 
falls. She is never to be inhabited or even to be a place 
of pasture. Isa. xiii. 26. Widowhood and loss of children 
come at once. Isa. xlvii. 9. 

12. — Twenty- eight things (7 times 4 =28), the perfec- 
tion of all that is in the earth or world. 

13.— Gold stands at the head, the souls of men at the foot. 

14. — The proof that " All is vanity under the sun." 
Eccles. ii. 11. 



;>8 The Booh of lie relation. 

15. — Four classes that mourn over her — kings and 
merchants of the earth, sailors and shipmasters of the sea. 

17. — Confusion was God's stamp on Babel, destruction 
on Babylon. 

20. — Three classes called to rejoice — heaven, apostles, 
prophets. 

22. — Music, art, and science had endeavoured to make 
this world a paradise, but failed. The end of world's fairs 
and world-improving machinery. 

23. — Men called these things greatness and success ; 
God calls them by their right name, deception and sorcery. 

21. — The blood of God's saints at last avenged. Luke 
xi. 50. The end of traffic, competition, rivalry, trickery, 
and dishonesty. Man's city destroyed, while the city of 
God abides, a glory for ever. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

1. — Joy in heaven, not over repentant sinners, but 
because of judgment that has been executed and justice 
satisfied. Honour, power, and glory given to the only One 
entitled to receive them. 

2. — Righteousness and truth finally prevail. Mercy 
gives place to vengeance, long suffering to wrath. 

3. — The hallelujah chorus now truly sung. 

4. — The singers include elders, living creatures, 
servants, and multitudes. 

5. — All that fear God are called upon to praise Him. 

6. — The Lord God Almighty reigns without a rival. 

7. — The false woman having been judged and put 
away, the long-espoused virgin (2 Cor. xi. 2) becomes the 
wedded wife. She who suffered with Him in His rejection 
now shares His glory. John xvii. 24. 

8. — Her raiment — righteous deeds wrought through 
her by the power of the Holy Ghost. 



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9. — The called ones are probably Old Testament saints, 
friends of the Bridegroom having part in the first resur- 
rection. John hi. 29 ; Heb. xii. 23. 

The marriage supper of the Lamb. He drinks the new 
wine of the Kingdom with them. Luke xxii. 18. 

10. — No worship of saints in heaven, that ends down 
here. Service gives place to worship, and all to God. 

11. — Heaven opens again to Him who opened the 
book. Where all had failed one witness had been true. 
Kev. i. 5. 

He is as righteous in judgment as in mercy. Actsxvii. 31. 

He who is the God of peace, becomes the God of war. 
Rom. xvi. 20. 

12. — His eye of pity that now draws His friends, 
becomes the eye of fire to consume His enemies. Heb. xii. 29. 

This name of judgment His saints will never know. 
1 Cor. xi. 31. 

13. — A name from the beginning to save or judge. 

14. — The saints are turned to warriors, following Him 
to conquest. 

15. — Instead of converting the nations, He slays them. 
Ps. ii. 9. 

Now man rules, evil prospers, Christ is rejected, and 
Satan is the Prince of this world ; but the God of heaven 
shall take away man's dominion and "set up a Kingdom 
that shall never be destroyed." Dan. ii. 44. 

16. — The name which is above every name, to whom 
every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess Him Lord. 
Phil. ii. 9-12. 

His enemies have become His footstool. Ps. ex. 1. 

He who was once servant and subject, is Lord of all. 

17. — Gathering His enemies to the last supper as once 
He had gathered His friends. A great war precedes this 
supper, to which the fowls of the air are invited. Ezek. 
lxxxix. 17-29. 



40 The Book of Revelation. 



The battle of Gog and Magog preceding the millennium, 
in -which all the mighty ones of the earth are laid low. 
The baptism of fire falls, and the Lord pleads with all 
flesh. Isa. lxvi. 16. 

19. — From beginning to end the powers of this world 
have been arrayed against Christ. The only Christian 
nation will be Israel restored, and Jesus Christ their 
rightful Head, Heir of the Throne of David. Acts xv. 56. 

20. — The end of the deceiver and the Anti-Christ, who 
go to their own place, the lake of fire. Two men were 
taken to heaven without tasting death, so two will be cast 
into Hell alive. 

21. — The end of man's effort to be as God. 

The tares are gathered into bundles and burned. 
Matt. xiii. 40. 

The righteous shine forth in the Kingdom of their 
Father. Mai. iv. 1, 2. 



CHAPTER XX. 



1. — The angel referred to is undoubtedly our Lord or 
His representative, for He only has the keys of hell and 
death. The bottomless pit is a place of confinement, not 
of final abode. 

2. — Four names that mark him as beastly, corrupt, 
a deceiver, and destroyer. His power, always limited, is 
now suspended, for he is bound for 1,000 years. 

3. — Shut up and sealed, while a new chapter in the 
purposes of God towards the earth is opened. Six 
dispensations have passed, and in all ages and under all 
circumstances man has failed. In Eden, before the 
flood, during the patriarchal age, or under the Mosaic law, 
while our Lord was upon the earth, or during the present 
dispensation of the Holy Ghost — all is failure so far as 
man is concerned. Notwithstanding the fact that the body 



The Hook of Revelation, 41 



of Christ has been completed and taken to heaven and the 
remnant of Israel restored and blessed in their own land, 
man is still deceived by Satan, and the great mass of 
humanity remain his dupes and followers. And now this 
enemy of souls, that deceived the nations, is bound so that 
for one thousand years man shall have no excuse for sin. 

4. — Thrones and power are given to those who rejected 
the wiles of Satan, preferring death to disloyalty to God, 
and the enmity of the beast to denial of their Lord. 

5. — The first resurrection to life and blessing includes 
only the just. John v. 29. Acts xxiv. 15. All that are 
Christ's, both dead and living, arise. The righteous dead 
shall be raised incorruptible, and the righteous living 
changed in a moment. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. Added to these 
the multitude who, after the Church is gone, bear witness 
to the truth, and will not receive the mark of the beast, 
and who have part in the first resurrection. Rev. xi. 11. 

6. — Having been through death and resurrection, death 
has no more dominion over them, and if he had Jesus has 
the keys. Rev. i. 18 ; Heb. ii. 14. 

7. — The last test Satan is permitted to make. It will 
now be demonstrated that one thousand years of exemption 
from temptation of Satan has not improved man. 

8. — The nations always hostile to Christ become an 
easy prey to Satan again, and the forced obedience of the 
one thousand years gives way to bitter envy and hatred of 
God's people, and they gather once more as the sand of the 
sea in their final attempt to dethrone God as the ruler of 
the world. 

8. — The battle of Gog and Magog, described in Ezekiel, 
is probably at the beginning of the Millennium ; this is at 
the end. The first invasion was from the North, evidently 
led by Russia ; this will be from the four corners of the earth. 

9. — God defends His city and people with the fire from 
Heaven. 



42 'I he Book of Revelation. 

10. — Satan follows the beast and false prophet to the 
place prepared for them. Matt. xxv. 41. 

11. — No more a throne of grace, but judgment. 

White, nothing impure can stand before it. 

12. — The resurrection to damnation or judgment. All 
the wicked dead from Cain down to the last enemy of God, 
stand before it, but no believer in Christ is there. 

Christ is to be the Judge, the Word of God the 
standard. John xii. 48. 

No infants here ; the blood atones for them. Deut. i. 39. 

Everyone judged and rewarded according to his works. 
Isa. xxvi. 20. 

No annihilation ; the wrath of God abides on them. 
John hi. 36. 

The punishment of the wicked as eternal a3 the 
rewards of the just. Rom. ii. 12. 

Degrees of punishment taught by our Lord in the f<w 
or " many stripes," of which He speaks in Luke xii. 47, 48. 

Two books are opened — one containing the works of 
the dead, the other the names of the saved. 

To be found in one is eternal woe, to be found in the 
other is eternal bliss. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



1. — A new dispensation. Seven have passed, and God's 
purposes to earth and its inhabitants completed. 

The eighth or eternal state begins a new octave — old 
things passed away, all become new. In the millennium 
righteousness reigned; here it dwells. 2 Peter hi. 13. 

2. — In wilderness days, w T hen God's people were 
redeemed, He tabernacled with them ; so in coming days, 
when the groaning creation is redeemed (Rom. viii. 22), 
and the place of His feet is made glorious (Isa. lx. 13), 



The Book of Revelation, 43 

11 His sanctuary shall be in the midst for evermore." 
Ezek. xxxvii. 27, 28. 

3. — First in the tabernacle, then in the temple, next in 
the person of our Lord, now in regenerate hearts, and at 
last in the Holy City, our Lord makes His abiding place- 
Psa. Ixvi. 1, 2. 

4. — Sin and sorrow, pain and death, unknown here. 
Isa. xxv. 8. 

5. — The old chapter of unfaithfulness closed. 

G. — They who found nothing but vanity under the sun 
find all their ambitions satisfied in Him who is the fountain 
and the source of all blessing. 

7. — Sons by birth, inheritance of all things to over- 
comers. All things gained there for those who gave up all 
things here. 

8. — Eight classes whose inheritance is the lake of fire. 

9. — Man's city in ruins ; the city of God in its glory. 
The Bride was the completion of the old creation ; so of 
the new. Deut. xxxiv. 1. 

10. — Moses in the mountain to see the promised land ; 
Peter, James, and John in the mountain to see the 
photograph of the coming glory. Matt. xvii. 2. 

Ezekiel in a high mountain to see the millennial 
temple. Ezek. xl. 2. The place that Abraham looked for 
(Heb. xi. 10), and that Jesus went to prepare. John xiv. 3. 

11. — Heaven not only the residence of a glorified man, 
but a glorified church sharing His glory. 

1-2.— Twelve gates, indicating power and judgment, 
and twelve angel representatives of the whole house of Israel. 

1-4. — Twelve foundations, indicating fixed, perfect 
stability. Building rests upon apostles and prophets, 
Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone. 
Ephes. ii. 20. 

16. — Four-square speaks of equality, while the equal 
length, breadth, and height might speak of the Trinity. 



44 The I >ook of Revelation. 

17. — Twelve times twelve, the perfection of govern- 
mental ministry. 

18. — Pure gold speaks of intrinsic righteousness. We 
can conceive of nothing more costly and beautiful ; hence 
its use. 

19. — Foundation connected with every variety of rare 
and precious stones, suggesting glory and beauty, reminding 
us of the breastplate of the High Priest. Ex. xxviii. 15-21 . 

21. — Reminding us of the parable in Matt. xiii. of the 
pearl of great price. 

22. — No temple here ; it would be out of place for 
those brought nigh to God and walking with Him. In 
the earthly city the temple is the glory ; here the Lord 
God Almighty, titles in connection with Israel and the 
nations, and the Lumb (a general title used in Revelation 
twenty-eight times, four times seven) are the temple thereof. 
The word Lamb used so often here is used only once in 
prophecy, once in the gospels, and once in the epistles. 
The relationship of Father and Son, or of Christ and His 
body, are not seen here, as they are connected with grace 
and not with judgment. 

23. — The glory shining out to lighten Israel in the 
millennial Jerusalem, and He who was the light of the 
world is now the light of the celestial city. 

24. — Out of this heavenly city flow service, ministry, 
blessing, and judgment, like the pillar of cloud by day and 
of fire by night, when He again spreads His tabernacle 
over them. Isa. iv. 5, 6. 

25. — As Zion or Jerusalem will be lifted up the centre 
of the millennial earth (Isa. ii. 2), so the heavenly city 
coming down in sight as the sun, will be the centre of 
God's thoughts and purposes, conveyed to the nations 
through His redeemed people. 

26. — Glory and honour centered in Him to whom it 
belongs. 



Ihc Book of Revelation. 45 

27- — A Holy city inhabited by the Holy One and those 
who by His grace have been made holy are the only 
inhabitants. Nothing impure or that defiletb, that 
worketh abomination, or a lie can enter or could remain 
with " Him who is of purer eyes than to behold evil and 
cannot look on iniquity." Habak. i. 13. 

The God of Heaven fills all and lights all. 

After man's city and man's glory have passed away the 
city of God and His glory will be revealed, and we who are 
in the heavens will then minister to those on earth. 
Newspapers tell us of the increased enlightenment and 
civilization of the 19th Century. God tells us that Christ 
only is the light of this poor dark world. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



In the garden of Eden there was one river that parted 
outside into four heads. Gen. ii. 10. This river repre- 
sents Christ, who is manifested to the world in His varied 
character by the four Gospels. Here the river is one again 
— a river of grace abounding with life and blessing. 

Living water always flows from God's temples, whether 
on earth or in heaven. John vii. 38. 

2. The land cannot be barren through which the water 
of life flows literally or spiritually. 2 Pet. i. 8. There 
were two trees in Eden ; here but one, always fruitful and 
abundant. Twelve again associates it with Israel who 
were destined to be the source of blessing to the nations, 
and will be yet. 

3. — The fruit of man's disobedience and fall are gone, 
and something better than " Paradise regained " is here ; 
for God and the Lamb make their abode with man, that 
could never be possible until redemption was complete. 

4. — Not only see His face, but transformed into His 
likeness. Ps. xvii. 15. 



4G The Book of Revelation. 

5. — No more through a glass darkly, but face to face. 
1 Cor. xiii. 12. 

Light, that began the old creation, is the fulness of the 
new. 

G. — The terms, holy prophets and servants, show the 
Jewish character of this prophecy. Rev. i. 1. 

7. — Forseeing the neglect and slight of this book, He 
assures those who read and keep it a special blessing. 
Rev. i. 3. 

Those who are not looking for His coming are very 
apt to pervert His truth. 2 Peter iii. 4, 5. 

10. — Men say the Book is sealed. God says it is not. 
To the Church nothing is sealed, to the Jews all is. For 
the Christian the time always is at hand, and the only key 
to prophecy, old or new, is the Holy Ghost. 

11. — Character fixed. The time for moral change or 
conversion is past, the day of grace is over. 

12. — Three times He assures us in this chapter — 

Verse 7. — I come quickly in connection with obedience. 

Verse 12. — I come quickly in connection with reward. 

Verse 20. — Surely I come quickly in connection with 
assurance. 

13. — History of the first man past and ended. Now 
He who was before all things fills all things. 

14. — The final blessing on those who have washed 
their robes. 

The only thing left for us to wash in is the Word. 

What was denied to the first man, the tree of life, 
becomes ours by Divine authority. 

15. — The character of those w T ho were shut out of the 
Holy City. The presence of God is heaven and blessing ; 
to be shut out hell and cursing. Deut. xxx. 19. 

16. — As the source and seed of David He comes to 
Israel. As the bright and morning star He will come 
to us. 



The Book of Revelation, 47 

17. — The Spirit that has gathered the members and 

baptized them into one body cries " Come." The waiting 
Church that mourns her absent and risen Lord, says 
11 Come." They who have tasted of the water of life and 
thirst for more, say " Come," and whosoever wills, and 
none do, who have not been made willing by His grace, 
let him take freely, all he wills. 

18, 19. — A special warning to those who add to or take 
away from the sayings of this Book. 

The reason Satan hinders the study of this Book is 
because it tells of his final overthrow, and the reason that 
critics and unbelievers attack it with so much venom is 
because it attacks them and will not let them rest. 

20. — Both Old and New Testaments end with, " Be- 
hold He cometh." 

21. — A book of judgments, ends with a benediction of 
grace. 



SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE. 

More than in any other book in Scripture the expressions 
are highly figurative. 

To make them literal is to make them more mysterious, 
taking language that we do understand to convey truth 
that would otherwise be incomprehensible. 

Christ is the key, and the Holy Spirit must be the 
guide. Our own spirituality, too, will be the measure of 
our apprehension. 

The candlesticks speak of the light of the world. 

Fire speaks always of holiness. 

Brass speaks of judgment. 

Gold speaks of righteousness. 

Two-edged sword, of the word of God. 

Thunders and lightnings tell us of judgment. 

Four living creatures, messengers of God to the earth. 



48 The Book of Revelation. 

Four horses, instruments of power in the earth. 
Stars refer to notable men in church or State. 
Beasts speak of power and intelligence without 
conscience or fear of God. 

Seals, marks of ownership or approval. 

Frogs are declared to be unclean spirits. 

The scarlet woman the opposite of the bride. 

Babylon, man's city, opposite of the city of God. 

Lake of fire, holiness that immerses in torment. 

Water of life, source of support and refreshment. 

City of gold, place where all is righteousness. 

Precious stones, our highest conception of beauty. 

Books, records of deed and titles to rewards. 

Gates, place of power and government. 

Sea and waters represent society, multitudes and nations. 

Fine linen declared to be the righteousness of saints. 

Suppers, closing meal of the da 7, or dispensation. 

Heads suggest to us wisdom, intelligence. 

Horns suggest power and might. 

Elders are men of age, experience, wisdom. 



The Book of Revelation. 49 



NUMBERS IN REVELATION. 

No where in the Bible are numbers so frequently used, the 
number seven occurring fourteen times. 

One like unto the Son of Man among the candlesticks. 
One of his heads healed — the head of the beast. 
One mind of the ten Kings — to give power one hour. 
One hour destruction falls upon Babylon. 

Two — the number of testimony or conflict. 

Two-edged sword— the Word of God. 

Two witnesses — Moses and Elias. 

Two olive trees and Candlestick — Spirit and Light. 

Two wings given to the Woman for flight. 

Two horns like a Lamb— deceitful testimony. 

Three — the number of completeness. 

Three measures of Barley — fulness of famine. 

Three agents of destruction — fire, brimstone, and smoke. 

Three days dead bodies lie in Jerusalem. 

Three unclean spirits like frogs— spirits of devils. 

Three parts the city was divided into 

Three gates on each side of the city. 

Four — the world number — connected with creation. 
Four living creatures— messengers to the Earth. 
Four angels controlling four winds and four corners. 
Four horns of the golden altar before God. 
Four quarters of earth in battle of Gog and Magog. 

Five— the number of responsibility, weakness, grace. 
Five months' limit of torment upon men. 
Five out of seven Kings fallen, two remain. 

Six — man's limit a little short of perfection. 
Six wings in each of the four living creatures. 
666— The trinity of Evil— the mark of the beast. 

Seven — the number of perfection. 

Seven — perfection of professed testimony for God. 

Seven spirits — the perfection of the God-head. 

Seven candlesticks — the perfection of light and truth. 

Seven stars — the perfection of glory, rule and oversight. 

Seven lamps— the seven spirits of God. 

Seven seals— impenetrably closed— concealed. 

Seven horns— the perfection of power. 

Seven eyes — the perfection of discernment. 

Seven trumpets — the peifection of authority. 

Seven thunders — the perfection of judgment. 

Seven last plagues — perfection of God's wrath. 

Seven vials — the fulness of destruction. 



50 The Booh of Revelation. 



Seven mountains — perfection of earthly power. 
Seven kings — perfection of human rule and authority. 

Eight, resurrection number — not found in Revelation. 

Ten — the number of responsibility, trial, testing man. 
Ten days' tribulation and trial of the Church — Smyrna. 
Ten horns— limitation of Satan's power for trial. 
Ten crowns— limitation of authority and acceptance. 

Twelve — the number of governmental authority. 

Twelve stars in crown of the woman Israel. 

Twelve occurs seven times in chapter xxi. 

Twelve gates — place of government and rule. 

Twelve tribes of the children of Israel. 

Twelve angels — representative of Old Testament family. 

Twelve Apostles — representatives of New Testament family. 

Twelve foundations — the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 

Twelve thousand furlongs — the dimensions of the city. 

Twelve pearls — of which the gates were made. 

Twelve thousand sealed each tribe of Israel. 

Twelve kinds of fruit for healing the nations. 

Twenty-four — fulness of authority and government. 
Twenty-four seats— place of judgment and power. 
Twenty-four Elders— representatives of law and grace. 

Forty-two, 6x7 = fulness or limitation of time and power. 
Forty-two months — Holy City trodden down by Gentiles. 
Forty -two months — time of the testimony of the beast. 

144,000, 12 x 12 = perfection or fulness of governmental 
ministry on the earth. 



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